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Very bad decision not to include DRBD 29 September 2009 00:49
Seems very bad not to include DRDB, they worked very hard to get it
ready with encouragement from various Kernel developers. To get
rejected at the last hurdle, that's got to hurt.
This is especially bad as there is nothing like it in the kernel yet,
and this kind of technology is needed in companies now (without the
hassle of out of kernel support). Rejecting because it contains yet
another RAID implementation is spurious when it is far from this and
there is no ready technology today to compete with this.
The rejection looks based on a perceived purity of the implementation
(yet another md like thing) but should have been based on the
usefulness and functionality. Clean up should have happened later (as
a general md cleanup effort), if purity was the primary concern the
whole of Linux would have failed on day one for not being a
microkernel.
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